St. Bede's Science

The Science Department at St. Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College.
Sharing the work of our students and amazing discoveries in Science worldwide.

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Science Club completed some @RoySocChem Microscale practicals today with some incredible results! @STEMLearningUK @stb

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We had the best time!! Thanks to everyone who came to enjoy our Science of the Senses!

[Lorraine Coghill @LorraineCoghill]

So fantastic to welcome @sciencestbedes #scienceambassadors back to #celebratescience @durham_uni What an amazing group of Year 8 students - such great #rolemodels 🌟Thank you!!!

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#InternationalScientist #AshokeSen one of the 1st recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize for enabling realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory. When nominated by #StephenHawking in 1998, he won Fellowship of the Royal Society

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#InternationalScientist #TuYouYou discovered 2 breakthrough drugs used to treat malaria, saving millions of lives in Asia and America receiving the Lasker Award & the Nobel Prize in #Physiology/#Medicine and being the first #Chinese woman to do so.

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#InternationalScientist #JoséMiguelGaona graduated in #Medicine from the University of Córdoba & has intervened in the judicial aspect of crimes, in the psychological counseling of disasters (La Palm volcanic eruption) & predicted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in #Spain

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#InternationalScientist #EdwardWitten is a mathematical & theoretical physicist who was the first physicist to be awarded a Fields Medal in 1990 for M-theory, that five string theories were in fact not distinct theories, but different limits of a single theory #USA

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#InternationalScientist #StephenHawking is known as the Oxbridge #physicist & #cosmologist who worked on black holes, general relativity and quantum gravity and shared his discoveries with the world in A Brief History of Time #UK

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#InternationalScientist #ValentinaTereshkova was the 1st woman to travel into space, joining the programme with no pilot training but was an accomplished parachutist. On June 16, 1963, she was launched in the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours #cosmonaut

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#InternationalScientist #JeremiahOstriker is best known for his research of dark matter & dark energy looking at black hole growth & galaxy formation, initiating the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project to be awarded the White House Champions of Change Award #astrophysics #USA

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#InternationalScientist #FranciscaOkeke was the 1st female Head of Department at the University of Nigeria. She worked on equatorial electrojet phenomenon which highlighted its potential to “further our understanding of climate change” winning a UNESCO award #Nigeria #Geophysics

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#InternationalScientist #MarieMaynardDaly was the first African-American woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. She worked on exploring links between high cholesterol, clogged arteries & increased risk of heart attacks, becoming an investigator for the AHA #USA #Biochemist

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We really enjoyed meeting our next Year 7 cohort, thanks for all coming to try our science experiments, we saw some excellent scientists, just look at this pH rainbow 🌈 #science #STEM #ks3 #welcome

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#InternationalScientist @SunetraGupta is an Oxford University Professor of Theoretical #Epidemiology who was born in #India & studied at Princeton University & Imperial College London. She modeled the COVID-19 pandemic & she has researched malaria, flu, meningitis & HIV

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#InternationalScientist @ninatandon is the CEO & co-founder of EpiBone, creating bone tissue from a patient's stem cells to use in bone grafts. She grew up in NYC & has studied in both #USA & #Rome using electrical currents to force growth and stimulate cells # biomedicalengineer

[New Scientist @newscientist]

A robot made of magnetic slime could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as retrieving objects swallowed by accident.
https://t.co/EYpnx56vNO

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#InternationalScientist #LiseMeitner gained her doctorate at the University of Vienna, worked with Hahn on isotope protactinium-231 & with Strassmann on the neutron bombardment of uranium. Her tombstone states “A physicist who never lost her humanity” #AustrianSwedish #Physics

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@newscientist What an interesting article about how trees are so incredibly important to us and what we need to do to monitor their numbers 🌳🌲🌱🌿 https://t.co/DkCRWXd7gm

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#InternationalScientist #CarolineHershel was the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and discovered several comets using a telescope built for her by her brother. She was honoured by the King of Prussia and the Royal Astronomical Society. #Germany #Astronomy

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Amazing new discoveries about #BlackHoles from Mr Lambert today! Has this resolved the Black Hole paradox? https://t.co/XT5OPD8IZF

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#InternationalScientist #MarieTharp created the first scientific Atlantic Ocean floor map, having completed paleontological research in New York & data collection from 18 years of travelling on ships. It gave information supporting the theory of continental drift. #Geology #USA